November 8, 2011 – VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, has completed installation of its Signature RFID contactless electronic door locks and VISION access management system at a pair of luxury Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide properties in Greece. (Read More)

November 2, 2011 – Leading online global travel network TravelShark continues to enhance its position in popular destinations across Asia Pacific and Europe with the acquisition of 80 new major-market, destination-specific websites. TravelShark's newest domain acquisitions – all now live sites with new and enhanced TravelShark content – include heavily trafficked sites in premium travel locales, including BeijingHotels.com, SingaporeHotels.com, BangkokHotels.com and KualaLumpurHotels.com. (Read More)

October 31, 2011 – FCS Computer Systems, a leading comprehensive hospitality solutions provider, announces the appointment of hotel technology sector veteran, Erynn Torrenga, as Director of National Accounts for the full suite of FCS hospitality solutions and solution architecture services. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Torrenga will play a major role in helping FCS grow its market share in the North and South America regions of the hospitality market. (Read More)

OCTOBER 27, 2011 – Bartech, a world leader in automatic profit-generating minibar solutions for the hospitality industry, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company this month. In the early 1990's, Bartech founders Mario Agrario, Marc Cohen and Jean-Claude Tillet identified a need in the hotel industry to streamline minibar operations and make them more efficient and profitable. (Read More)

October 25, 2011 – Following last month's successful acquisition of eat.shop guides, leading online global travel network TravelShark has rebranded the popular international series of hyper-local travel-planning books as rather. The company also announced the release of eight new rather books, including rather paris, rather new york city and rather los angeles, in time for holiday shopping at the new rather.com. (Read More)

OCTOBER 19, 2011 – Ariane Systems, the global leader in self-service check-in/out technology for the hospitality industry, proudly announces that a product integration based on its Allegro Web-Mobile-Kiosk Check-in/out Solution has received the award for the best technology solution at the fourth WorldHotel International Hotel Facilities Equipment Trade Fair, held this month in Warsaw. (Read More)

October 18, 2011 – VingCard Elsafe, the global leader in hospitality security and part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, announces that the 269-room Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh, has installed the Signature RFID contactless locking solution as a next-generation upgrade from the traditional magnetic-stripe keycard system. In conjunction with the RFID upgrade, Sheraton Grand Edinburgh has also implemented VingCard's VISION software, smoothly interfacing the locking system with the hotel's property management and point-of-sale systems. (Read More)

OCTOBER 5, 2011 -Bartech, a world leader in automatic profit-generating minibar solutions for the hospitality industry, announced today that it will demonstrate its comprehensive line of new design and technology innovations at the IHG Americas Investor Conference 2011. The conference will take place October 24-25 at The Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas. (Read More)

OCTOBER 4, 2011 - Hotel Concepts – Brilliant, a leading global provider of technology and software solutions for the hospitality industry, and 3CX announce that a full integration has been completed between Hotel Concepts' Integrated Distribution Property Management System (IDPMS), the Brilliant PMPRO property management platform and the 3CX Hotel Module, a comprehensive PBX telephony system designed specifically for the global hotel industry. (Read More)